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Pilot program to boost AIA staff mental health

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 30 NOV 2018
... corporate health program trialled at AIA will allow the life insurer's staff to track their mental health progress. AIA employees are trialling a new corporate health program from mental health technology company Medibio, which allows the life insurer's ...

Corporate and industry super funds unite

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 30 NOV 2018
... The now $18 million Fairbrother Employee Retirement Fund was established in 1984 to provide superannuation benefits to employees of Tasmanian building construction, joinery and facilities management company Fairbrother. Fairbrother employs more than ...

Gender split sees new investment industry focus

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 27 NOV 2018
Australia's private equity and venture capital businesses are committed to increasing the number of women employees following the sector's latest workplace diversity study. At its 25th annual conference in September, the Australian Private Equity ...

Overhaul executive remuneration: Poll

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 26 NOV 2018
... Commission the bank placed too much emphasis on financial measures instead of promoting accountability and encouraging employees to ensure that the bank was delivering good outcomes for customers. However, Comyn defended the importance of short-term ...

AFCA creates small businesses ombudsman role

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2018
... disputes with their financial service providers. AFCA will consider complaints from small businesses with less than 100 employees and a credit facility of up to $5 million. AFCA independent chair Helen Coonan said small businesses will also benefit from ...

Pension lessons from around the world

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 15 NOV 2018
... subject to change if there were a change in government." As such, NEST commenced in 2011 with auto-enrolment; almost all employees are enrolled into a pension by their employer and can opt-out if they want to. If they don't opt-out, contributions ...

Global asset managers sign responsible firearms framework

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 15 NOV 2018
... possess firearms. Principle 4 : Civilian firearms distributors, dealers, and retailers should educate and train their employees to better recognise and effectively monitor irregularities at the point of sale, to record all firearm sales, to audit firearms ...

Westpac admits it didn't take FoFA seriously

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 NOV 2018
... records show that advice was not provided, and if not, that fees were stopped and where appropriate refunded." Over 75 employees are currently reviewing adviser files. Westpac provided $195 million in 2018 as an estimate of what it will cost in refunds ...

Grattan says Aussies retiring comfortably, ISA responds

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 NOV 2018
... said the assumptions used by Grattan in its model were dubious, unrealistic and unrepresentative of most Australian employees. "Across all age groups just 12.2% of employees with super make additional concessional contributions but Grattan appear to ...

Mental health at work still a stigma: Report

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 6 NOV 2018
... like a community where people support each other, beyond just getting the work done," Lydon said. Financial services employees experience higher stress levels compared to other professions. Read our feature article on how financial services staff can ...